Hooton's Luftwaffe Loss Totals - request for clarification

[Paul Thompson]

Originally Posted by Andrew Arthy

Hi Paul,

These AHB translations are also available at the Australian War Memorial, and at NARA in the United States (Record Group 549). The AWM has the following: ...
I've got a couple of them. These tables provide exactly the same information as the Summarische Verluste documents that Andreas Brekken has kindly made available on his website. However, the AHB translations summarise losses at a higher level than the Summarische Verluste documents, the latter being at a Staffel/Gruppe level, and the AHB translations at Luftflotte/theatre level.

Cheers,
Andrew A.

Air War Publications - www.airwarpublications.com

Hello Andrew,

Thank you for the excellent listing and explanation! The 1939 through 1941 figures are also available at Kew, I haven't mentioned them since they don't list individual aircraft types. The relevant references are translation 83 in Air 20/7703 and translation 92 in Air 20/7704.

I suspected that the Summarische Verluste were the original source, so it's good to see a confirmation of that. Do you know what led the AHB to produce the tables for these specific periods and theatres instead of any others? I assume from what you wrote that there are no other tables of this nature, or at least they aren't widely known to exist.

Regards,

Paul Thompson